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  2. Phonetic transcription - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Phonetic transcription (also known as phonetic script or phonetic notation) is the visual representation of speech sounds (or phones) by means of symbols. The most common type of phonetic transcription uses a phonetic alphabet, such as the International ...

  3. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The official chart of the IPA, revised in 2020. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech. [1]

  4. Visible Speech - Wikipedia

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    Visible Speech is a system of phonetic symbols developed by British linguist Alexander Melville Bell in 1867 to represent the position of the speech organs in articulating sounds. Bell was known internationally as a teacher of speech and proper elocution and an author of books on the subject. The system is composed of symbols that show the ...

  5. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    English orthography comprises the set of rules used when writing the English language, [1][2] allowing readers and writers to associate written graphemes with the sounds of spoken English, as well as other features of the language. [3] English's orthography includes norms for spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and ...

  6. Rhotic consonant - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including R , r in the Latin script and Р , p in the Cyrillic script.

  7. International Phonetic Alphabet chart - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association. It is not a complete list of all possible speech sounds in the world's ...

  8. Phonological change - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In historical linguistics, phonological change is any sound change that alters the distribution of phonemes in a language. In other words, a language develops a new system of oppositions among its phonemes. Old contrasts may disappear, new ones may ...

  9. Phonological rule - Wikipedia

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    A phonological rule is a formal way of expressing a systematic phonological or morphophonological process in linguistics. Phonological rules are commonly used in generative phonology as a notation to capture sound-related operations and computations the human brain performs when producing or comprehending spoken language.